I have a 14TB internal drive in my PC for my movie and TV collection, and a 14TB external drive as a back up for them. They have been getting full so I just bought an 18TB internal and 20TB external drive to replace them. It took about 14 hours to copy everything to the internal drive and I have about nine more hours for the external drive. This computer is much faster than anything I had before, it took more than 24 hours in the past when those files were much smaller, but it still surprises me how long it takes. I am copying at somewhat over 200MBs. I remember when I was happy with 10 to 20 MBs. It would take almost a week at those rates now.
I built this a couple of years ago. I used an older generation Intel CPU as I wanted the 1200 series motherboard socket. I used a i7-11700 CPU, an MSI motherboard, 32 GB of DDR-4 RAM, a 1TB 4th generation M2 SSD for my system drive, a 2TB gen3 M2 for quick storage, a 10TB HDD for storage, and a 14TB HDD for movies and TV. I added an 8TB SATA SSD for storage last year and added an AMD video card this year. The 1TB system drive tests at over 6GBs for short transfers and the 8TB SSD tests at over 500MBs. It is not a gamer rig as I do not play new games, in fact I keep my XP Pro box because all my games are too old to play on the newer operating systems. I want the speed for video processing, back ups, streaming, and that type of thing. It runs cool and very quiet as this was a priority for me. I reused my old Antec Sonata case from 2006 as nothing newer seemed any better. This is the 4th or 5th PC I have built in this case. It is solid, quiet, has enough space, and screwless mounting for the drives.
My first build in 2006.
Case looks the same but the silly door at the top front is long gone/
I also have a 51/2″ holder for a 3 1/2″ HDD in the front to hold drives without having to open the case. I keep a 6TB HDD in it but I have the 18TB drive in it now to copy to it. I will move it inside when done. It is a SATA connection so faster than a USB connection but not hot swap-able. It is still more convenient than having to open the case. The 6TB drive is just a convenience for short term BU and such, cause why not? As I add larger drives they float down the chain and I end up with a lot of smaller drives that are not worth the connection (I remember when I thought a 1TB drive was huge. The external drives I have bought were all WD and look the same. 2,3,4,6,8,10,and 14TB all cost about the same, around $200.00 as they were usually one or two generations behind the biggest ones. This 20TB looks the same but was on sale for $320.00. OUCH! Drives have gotten much more expensive. The 8TB SSD I bought last year is almost double the price now for the same drive. I am glad I got it when I did.
My back ups are on external drives I connect through switched hubs so I can connect them when I want to BU and then disconnect so the BUs are safe should my system be captured by ransomware. I also back up most everything to my back up PC, a busness PC with an i3 cpu.
The reason I use a 1TB drive for my system drive is I take daily drive images so I want to keep it reasonably small. My system drive is usually 100 to 130 GB with an image being 50 to 60 GB. I put the daily BU on the 2TB drive so it is fast. I also do less frequent images to other drives, including the external drives, so I don’t lose my back ups if the PC is taken over.
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I have a 14TB internal drive in my PC for my movie and TV collection, and a 14TB external drive as a back up for them. They have been getting full so I just bought an 18TB internal and 20TB external drive to replace them. It took about 14 hours to copy everything to the internal drive and I have about nine more hours for the external drive. This computer is much faster than anything I had before, it took more than 24 hours in the past when those files were much smaller, but it still surprises me how long it takes. I am copying at somewhat over 200MBs. I remember when I was happy with 10 to 20 MBs. It would take almost a week at those rates now.
Is this something you built yourself, Mac, or a PC you bought? Geez, I thought I made a huge upgrade a couple years ago to a 1TB drive.
I built this a couple of years ago. I used an older generation Intel CPU as I wanted the 1200 series motherboard socket. I used a i7-11700 CPU, an MSI motherboard, 32 GB of DDR-4 RAM, a 1TB 4th generation M2 SSD for my system drive, a 2TB gen3 M2 for quick storage, a 10TB HDD for storage, and a 14TB HDD for movies and TV. I added an 8TB SATA SSD for storage last year and added an AMD video card this year. The 1TB system drive tests at over 6GBs for short transfers and the 8TB SSD tests at over 500MBs. It is not a gamer rig as I do not play new games, in fact I keep my XP Pro box because all my games are too old to play on the newer operating systems. I want the speed for video processing, back ups, streaming, and that type of thing. It runs cool and very quiet as this was a priority for me. I reused my old Antec Sonata case from 2006 as nothing newer seemed any better. This is the 4th or 5th PC I have built in this case. It is solid, quiet, has enough space, and screwless mounting for the drives.
My first build in 2006.
Case looks the same but the silly door at the top front is long gone/
I also have a 51/2″ holder for a 3 1/2″ HDD in the front to hold drives without having to open the case. I keep a 6TB HDD in it but I have the 18TB drive in it now to copy to it. I will move it inside when done. It is a SATA connection so faster than a USB connection but not hot swap-able. It is still more convenient than having to open the case. The 6TB drive is just a convenience for short term BU and such, cause why not? As I add larger drives they float down the chain and I end up with a lot of smaller drives that are not worth the connection (I remember when I thought a 1TB drive was huge. The external drives I have bought were all WD and look the same. 2,3,4,6,8,10,and 14TB all cost about the same, around $200.00 as they were usually one or two generations behind the biggest ones. This 20TB looks the same but was on sale for $320.00. OUCH! Drives have gotten much more expensive. The 8TB SSD I bought last year is almost double the price now for the same drive. I am glad I got it when I did.
My back ups are on external drives I connect through switched hubs so I can connect them when I want to BU and then disconnect so the BUs are safe should my system be captured by ransomware. I also back up most everything to my back up PC, a busness PC with an i3 cpu.
The reason I use a 1TB drive for my system drive is I take daily drive images so I want to keep it reasonably small. My system drive is usually 100 to 130 GB with an image being 50 to 60 GB. I put the daily BU on the 2TB drive so it is fast. I also do less frequent images to other drives, including the external drives, so I don’t lose my back ups if the PC is taken over.
Only Mac would call a 1TB drive ” reasonably small”.
I do remember when I thought a 110GB Maxel drive was huge. Now I have Mini-SD cards and small thumb drives several times that size.
I used to keep my whole movie collection on a 1 TB drive.